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Powering Business Grants

ERF Powering Up Savings

Invest in energy-efficient upgrades for your business with a Powering Business Grant

Get ready to power up your savings!

Give back to the environment.

In a net zero future, all businesses have a crucial role to play in monitoring and reducing our population's carbon footprint.

Being more environmentally sustainable can benefit your business at all levels, including:

  • attracting new customers seeking environmentally friendly products and services
  • attracting and retaining staff who want to work companies tackling climate change
  • being part of local and global supply chains with emissions reduction targets
  • Saving money by cutting your energy use and reducing waste.

Get back your money.

If you’re an eligible small or medium business or not-for-profit, you can soon apply for a Powering Business Grant to help you upgrade to more energy efficient systems to save on your energy bills.

By investing in energy-efficient upgrades or renewable energy systems, you’ll not only give back to the environment – you'll also get back up to 50% of your project costs*.

That means if you purchase equipment or solutions between $5,000 and $150,000 (ex-GST), you will be able apply for a grant to receive between $2,500 and $75,000 back.

For more information and to get ready to apply, read the Program Guidelines.

Choose your pathway to savings

Grants will be available under two funding streams to help you save and grow. Find out more about your potential savings by upgrading your equipment or investing in renewable energy systems.

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Solar and battery projects

Under this stream, you can put the grant towards installing solar panels (with battery storage) or battery-only systems to help reduce your reliance on the grid and improve your resilience.
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Energy efficiency projects

Through this stream, you can use the grant to upgrade equipment like refrigeration, insulation, lighting or other equipment to help you lower energy use and save money.
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Read the Powering Business Grants Program Guidelines

To prepare for when applications open, you can read the full Program Guidelines to understand more about the funding streams, and what you'll need to provide to apply.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you've still got questions, take a look through our list of FAQ's for some quick answers.

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Want to make your business more environmentally sustainable?

Participate in a free Small Business Sustainability Workshop with 2XE

Being more environmentally sustainable can benefit businesses at all levels, including:

  • attracting new customers seeking environmentally friendly products and services
  • attracting and retaining staff looking to work for companies who are actively addressing climate change
  • being part of local and global supply chains with emissions reduction targets
  • cost savings from becoming more energy and water efficient and reducing waste.

Register now to participate in FREE Small Business Sustainability Workshops across South Australia.

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Interested in receiving updates about the Powering Business Grants?

Register your details here and we'll send you an email when applications open.

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The Powering Business Grants are Round 3 of the Business Growth Fund.

The$154.2 million Business Growth Fund aims to assist business and industry in key areas to grow secure, well paid jobs, improve productivity, deliver efficiencies, increase exports and support innovative, value adding technologies in South Australia.

Learn more about BGF